NYT Got Into Our Kitchen
NYT Got Into Your Kitchen I like New York Times, their insights and editorials. The newsletters are more on the mild side of my interests, but this type of kitchen appliances troubleshooting I was not expecting.
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Amazon Invests Even More in Anthropic
“We’ve been impressed by Anthropic’s pace of innovation and commitment to responsible development of generative A.I., and look forward to deepening our collaboration,” Matt Garman, the chief executive of Amazon’s cloud computing division, AWS, said in a blog post announcing the deal. Link Let’s see
Advertisers (read “many, large media corporations”) Retreat From Social Media Policing
These actions are in part a response to Republicans’ complaints that media companies and advertisers have silenced conservative voices, according to six people who have worked with major advertisers. Some of those criticisms have led to legal action: In August, Elon Musk’s X sued a coalition of large advertisers,
OpenAI Considers Taking on Google With Browser — The Information
The ChatGPT owner recently considered developing a web browser that it would combine with its chatbot, and it has separately discussed or struck deals to power search features for travel, food, real estate and retail websites, according to people who have seen prototypes or designs of the products. OpenAI has
Trump’s Bro- Economy
The bro-economy: a volatile, speculative, and extremely online casino, in which the house is already winning big. Link Precisely how it looks from outside US
One (Potential) Solution to Mass Surveillance - Cape
Cape lets users create bundles of these identifiers, called “personas,” then cycle through them at different points. This means that during some attacks, a Cape phone may look like a different phone each time. Link This one links to the other post.
Murphy’s Law — If Interception Is Possible, Then It Is Already Happening
The New Yorker: “When this happens in an authoritarian system, it is horrific but unsurprising,” Seaford, the technology executive who was hacked during Greece’s spyware campaign, told me. “When it happens in a democracy; however, it creates a sense of disorientation: ‘Could this happen to me? Here? Really?!’ Link
OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in NYT suit
Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Link Oops!
Musk’s xAI adds billions in funding
Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund, Qatar Investment Authority, and investment firms Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz are expected to participate in the round, according to people familiar with the matter. The financing brings the total amount xAI has raised to $11 billion this year. Link It appears friends
Kagi Translate in multi-language benchmark
Eva Rodriguez de Luis for Genbeta: I have compared Kagi with DeepL and Google translator and I have been surprised: translation has a new king Original SpanishLink Translated in English link Translate.kagi.com is free, no account required.
Kagi — a new paradigm in web search
Vlad Prelovac, Kagi founder, at Random but Memorable: Vlad: In every transaction, there is the currency. And so, because the price of this is zero, people assume that there is no currency involved because we usually measure value in monetary terms. “The truth is, though, that there is always a
AI and Copyright
Techdirt: “Judge: Just Because AI Trains On Your Publication, Doesn’t Mean It Infringes On Your Copyright” Part of the problem is that these lawsuits assume, incorrectly, that these AI services really are, as some people falsely call them, “plagiarism machines.” The assumption is that they’re just copying everything
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OpenAI touts AI infrastructure
OpenAI has unveiled an “Infrastructure Blueprint for the U.S.” aimed at maintaining the country’s lead in AI over competitors like China. The plan, which includes initiatives like AI economic zones and a North American Compact for AI, emphasizes the potential of AI to revitalize the American Dream and
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Ai, Big Tech, & Markets – On my Om
Of course, like all booms, there’s going to be a bust. The AI boom will result in unmet expectations, much like the internet in the 1990s. The cost structure of AI is wonky for now. A lot of energy is required to make it all work. Link Quite a
So boosting an AI x100.000 won’t tell you a different result for 2+2=4? Hmm…
Noam Brown, via Reuters: “It turned out that having a bot think for just 20 seconds in a hand of poker got the same boosting performance as scaling up the model by 100,000x and training it for 100,000 times longer,” said Noam Brown, a researcher at OpenAI who
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Gary Marcus called it in April 2024 - LLMs are slowing down in returns, while their costs are increasing
And here’s the thing – we all know that GPT-3 was vastly better than GPT-2. And we all know that GPT-4 (released thirteen months ago) was vastly better than GPT-3. But what has happened since? I could be persuaded that on some measures there was a doubling of capabilities for
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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X | Social media | The Guardian
It’s good to be Bri’ish
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Threads is bringing ads to your feeds very soon - 9to5Mac
Threads is planning to kick off the effort by letting a small number of advertisers create and publish ads on the app starting in January, one of those people said. Link Today was an ads day
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OpenVibe for web in works
It seems they are working on a web version, just confirmed on Threads
Kagi Small Web
Kagi Small Web | Kagi Blog But we also recognize that the “small web” is the lifeblood of the internet, and the web we are fighting for. Those who contribute to it have already taken their own leaps of faith, often taking time and effort to create, without the assurance of
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Perplexity brings ads to its platform | TechCrunch
We intentionally chose these formats because it integrates advertising in a way that still protects the utility, accuracy, and objectivity of answers. These ads will not change our commitment to maintaining a trusted service that provides you with direct, unbiased answers to your questions. And Experience has taught us that
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10 Interesting Things About How Sex Scenes Are Filmed for Movies, TV
There might be a specific shot where we need to see their back, but they're not comfortable showing their front, so you can get a half stick-on bodysuit that goes all the way down to the stomach but shows from the back like they're fully nude
M.G. Siegler on Threads v Bluesky
… without the people (on Threads) pumping in the real-time information to fuel the content, it's going to go stale, fast. And people aren't going to pipe in the real-time information if they're not getting the real-time utility back in return. Link It sounds like
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DeepL launches DeepL Voice, real-time, text-based translations from voices and videos | TechCrunch
Notable few weeks for translation: DeepL launches this automated voice subtitling, Kagi launched it own translate.kagi.com, while Google seems very busy understanding why they made 5c less per word last Thursday… Link